Poor Jennifer Lawrence feared she’d be ripped off while buying a sofa for her new Hollywood home.

The Hunger Games star put her foot down and refused point blank to pay exorbitant prices for furniture and bought a cheap settee from Ikea.

She told the Mirror she wanted to “stay grounded” and this was her way of doing it.

Blowing $5million on a new Beverley Hills mansion and then paying a few hundred dollars for a cheap sofa is obviously the way the airheads keep their feet on the ground in Hollywood.

Ivor Callely

I’M probably in a minority of one, but I’ve some sympathy for Ivor Callely who was released on bail this week.

Regardless what you think of Ivor what he did was Mickey Mouse stuff compared what has gone on in this country.

It should be remembered that old Ivor was banged up for six months for a €4,000 mobile phone fraud.

In a country where those with connections were involved in scams involving €4billion and never saw the inside of a court is it any wonder Ivor is angry?

Undated artists impression issued by the European Space Agency of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenkoas scientists will attempt to make history this week by landing a robotic probe on the surface of a comet more than 300 million miles away. (Image: ESA/PA Wire)

The European Space Agency has landed a probe on a comet hurtling through space at over 40,000kph. Now that’s some achievement.

History was made when the Philae robotic space ship....er, it was more like a flying tumble dryer, successfully landed on what is huge chunk of ice with a tail.

Imagine successfully sending a probe 500,000,000 kilometres across the solar system and landing it speeding comet.

Funny how the space cadets in Leinster House can’t launch a probe into black hole in the banking system that cost us e64billion although it’s located less than five kilometres from the Dail.

The difference is the scientists to find answers while the politicians don’t.

To infamy and beyond......

Beware of things beginning with E, especially if it’s followed by the letters “i” and “r”.

Remember Eircom and who could forget the E voting machines that cost €55 million and were later sold as junk.

Now we have Eircode, the new postcode system that is set to become the next Irish Water.

The freight industry, the Emergency Services Association and even An Post don’t want this system but it is still going ahead regardless.

There are also data protection issues and the as every address in Ireland will have its own unique identifying code. Sound familiar?

As far back as 2006 the then Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes warned the board formed to look at the feasibility of the system that there might be problems.

Guess who was chaired that board? The present managing director of Irish Water, John Tierney.